St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
It Is Built on a Firm CONNER
eial and Financial
Foundation,
And Keeps Pace With the
Growth Of the Great North
western Section.

perusal from the fact that so much of
its valuable space has been accorded to
sketching the business interests of their
city and to chronicling the progress and
advancement of the past year. What
ever city is in commercial Importance,
or whatever progress it makes in social,
educational or business matters, is
due to the efforts of it's
citizens. All cities cannot be
great, but all may possess as
much of the blessings and advantages
which the age offers as its people pur-
pose and desire. The people of Still
water are patriotic. They believe in
their home, and while they do not ex-
pect it to become st. Paul or Mime
apolis, they do not intend to be behind
its sister cities of like population in
anything. Though misfortune and re-
verses have come to great business I'M
dertakings here which have tended to
check her growth and prosperity, yet
after all the city has withStoOd them as
well as could have been expected, and
business at present is in live, healthy
state and upon firm and substantial
basis.
POPULATION.
The actual population of the city is at
present 5000 people. The force of citi-
zen mechanics employed by the great
prison works was never so small as at
present, and as the new threSher COM
pany, who are about taking possession,
will at once open business upon a much
larger scale, that increase will immedi-
ately swell this figure.
THE NUMBERING INTERESTS.
Primarily Saltwater is numbering
town. Its location naturally makes it
the most desirable point upon the st.
CrOix for the prosecution of this great
industry, and while some of the pine
upon this river and its tributaries is
owned by the down river lumbermen,
by far the larger part of the annual cut
is made by Saltwater parties, while
have Offices here and transact
the vast amount of business necessary
to their winters operations from this
city. About sixty individuals or firms
located here are engaged in the lumber
ing business, either for themselves or as
contractors for others. The total cut of
last winter reached the enormous sum
of three hundred million 600, OOO, OOO) of
feet, and required the aid of 5000 men
to accomplish it. A fair estimate of the
cost of cutting the pine and running it
into the st. CroiX boom would be about
$500 per 1000 feet, or about $1,950, 900
LOT Ine SedSOn ldDOr.
ST. CROIX BOOM COMPANY.
This corporation, whose rafting
grounds are just abreast of the city,
employ annually from 800 to 500 men at
their sorting and rafting works, and
some fifteen or twenty steamers are en-
plOyed to tow or push the RATS of logs
or lumber to their destination at points
from this city to St. Louis. A large
number of these boats are owned here,
and their crews find yearly employ
ment at remunerative wages. The past
seasons rafting, owing to the low
water, has been remarkably expensive,
and the rapid encroachment of the rail
roads, who are determined to carry as
much of the sawed lumber as possible,
will in the future lessen this bra nch of
business materially.
LUMBER MANUFACTURES.
The seven large mills at Saltwater
have an annual capacity of 150000,OOO
feet, or about one-half of the yearly
cut. The past seasons cut has not been
quite up to this figure owing to low
water and the difficulty of obtaining
logs portion of the season. United
they furnish employment to some 1000
men who nearly all are residents of this
city.
THE FLOUR MILLS.
The Florence Mill company who Oper-
ate the large A and B mills in this city
have kept them busy the past year turn
ing out daily about S25 b arrels, most of
which is shipped to Europe. They
employ about fifty men.
MINNESOTA THRESHER COMPANY.
This corporation, who have just pur-
chased the manufacturing plant and as
sets of the late Northwestern Manufac-
turing and Car company, will assume
and will inaugurate business in the
same energetic fashion with which it
was conducted before the failure. The
enormous capacity of the works can be